I keep hoping the EU comes out with a "No Means No" legislation to end this "Ask Again Later" nonsense.
Tricky to thread the needle on what would/not be allowed, but the pattern has been abused long enough. Maybe even saying it cannot re-ask for 30 days would be a significant improvement.
And then the Speeder Bike level in Battletoads Battlemaniacs.
I don't mind instant death scenarios, as long as there is a quick restart and no game over mechanic (Celeste got this perfect, IMO). It is wild to me just how many of these kinds of scenarios there are in memorable games from the 8/16 bit (and before) era.
This was the game with the DOS port that had a jump you literally couldnt make. And someone somehow worked out you could proceed by going to a totally different area and glitching through a wall.
That video was deeply cathartic, I only got that far once at a friend's house and it was great to finally have confirmed that it wasn't me, the physics were completely broken.
Auto-repeat is the thing that most mystifies me about shorts. I understand the idea behind auto-play, although I disable it; but who on earth wants to watch the exact thing they just watched by default?
Given the success of TikTok, the answer is apparently, "billions of people", but I just don't get it.
My theory is that it is a way of forcefully grabbing people’s attention.
Without autoplay there is no engagement once the video is over. With autoplay there is the risk someone leaves the player on the background and ignores it. With looping videos people get annoyed and (if they’re like me) close the tab or skip to the next video just to get something different
What you're thinking of on the Nintendo switch is a recovery mode. Every (most?) modern systems have something like this. It's a lower level area that allows you to fix issues in the higher level areas, even when that's broken (ie, a failed system update). Your iPhone, android, and smart TV all have this.
That being accessible wasn't the mistake. It was all properly secured. It rejected your commands and everything has to be signed by Nintendo's private key. But Nvidia firmware had a buffer overflow bug inside of it that allowed arbitrary code execution.
Yep I've been doing this since WSL 1 was available, it's rock solid.
My dotfiles at https://github.com/nickjj/dotfiles have an install script to automatically get everything (including tmux w/ plugins) set up on Debian, Ubuntu, Arch Linux or macOS. This includes native Linux and WSL 2 support.
WSL is not Windows. Unless you can work entirely in WSL (and if I could I'd just use Linux) having to juggle fake filesystems, incompatible symlinks, two PATHs, three shells is a bit much.
I am not a lawyer and am not behind a PC atm, but didn't Rowan v. USPS determine that the receiver of mail has sole discretion about if the material they received is pornographic or not?
> The addressee of postal mail has unreviewable discretion to decide whether to receive further material from a particular sender, and a vendor does not have a constitutional right to send unwanted material to an unreceptive addressee.
It's not necessarily that the receiver has the sole right to determine if the material is pornographic or whatever, its that the receiver of mail has the right to decide to no longer receive material and that the sender doesn't have a right to force its delivery through the mail.
The form to prevent someone from sending you mail you don't want is a PS Form 1500. This form starts off saying:
> If you are receiving unwanted sexually oriented advertisements coming through the mail to your home or business
But, you can still just file it against say a roofer sending you unwanted advertising or whatever. The USPS isn't allowed to challenge your personal determination that you're receiving unwated sexually oriented advertisements. Maybe you personally find roofers sexy and are trying to avoid being around roofers and having their services offered at your home. USPS isn't allowed to judge.
I wouldn't assume this is how it works. But it could know your time zone changes and assume departure/arrival times based on it not being able to ping a server, then link this between possible airports based on time zones then possible flights based on the times.
But I suspect the false positives on this would be huge and if you felt so compelled could easily test while at your desk.
This is built into Android. A program like Discord has very granular controls over each type (DM, server event, stage event, etc) of notification as well as controls for each source (You can set a specific users DMs to be priority messages, silenced, show/hide from lock screen, etc).
A program like Uber Eats has a bit less benefit to allowing such controls over what they send you. While they do still break down messages by type, their descriptions are a bit cryptic and after getting an unsolicited notification from it, I ended up disabling all of them.
One that was annoying me for a while is Turo (like AirBnB for rental cars), which had only one notification category. When I have a rental upcoming or active, I need to be notified about messages from the host, but it would also send marketing notifications on occasion, which I never want to see. I would turn off notifications manually most of the time.
It looks like they recently split it into "marketing" and "transactional", which is probably good enough.
The one AI thing I'd like my phone to do is reliably decide when I would like to be told about any given notification using an on-device model.
Ironic, given their website showed me two unrequested popups.
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